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Moment in the life of…

By On Wed, Apr 21st, 2004 In General With Comments Off Permanent Link to Moment in the life of…Permalink

Sure signs of work overload…

From: zz
…

Fatal Error: No DOCTYPE specified!
I could not parse this document, because it does not include a DOCTYPE Declaration. A DOCTYPE Declaration is mandatory for most current markup languages and without such a declaration it is impossible to validate this document.

—–Original Message—–
From: yy
…

declare
all_busy BOOLEAN := ‘TRUE’
begin
  loop
    exit when all_busy = FALSE;
  end loop;
  meeting;
end;

—–Original Message—–
From: xx
…

> Meeting and possible solution on monday; all busy;

Syntax error near symbol ‘;’ , expecting ‘.’

Monkey business

By On Thu, Mar 25th, 2004 In General With Comments Off Permanent Link to Monkey businessPermalink

Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on
a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go
to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches
the stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with very cold high-pressure
water. After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same
result-all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon, when
another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to
prevent it.

Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it
with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the
stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him.
After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the
stairs, he will be assaulted. Next, remove another of the original five
monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and
is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with
enthusiasm!

Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth,
then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is
attacked. None of the monkeys that are beating him have any idea why they
were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the
beating of the newest monkey. After replacing all the original monkeys, none
of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water.
Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the
banana. Why not?

Because as far as they know that’s the way it’s always been done around
here. And that, my friends, is how company policy begins.

Found all over the Internet.

Thanks Ivan, this made my day.

Viagra Prank

By On Wed, Feb 25th, 2004 In General With Comments Off Permanent Link to Viagra PrankPermalink

Now this, you must see. It is so hilarious I was barely breathing from laughing my a*s off.

http://www.zug.com/pranks/viagra/index.html

Escape to fantasy

By On Tue, Oct 28th, 2003 In General With Comments Off Permanent Link to Escape to fantasyPermalink

With all the web work currently on my head, I don’t have time to read as much as I want to. Actually, I didn’t read a single line in more than a month. And I’m one book away from completing the opus of Raymond E. Feist (published up to now).

Ray wrote dozens of novels about the fantasy world called Midkemia which resembles Earth in a great deal. It all starts with The Riftwar Saga, with Elfs and Dwarves (very similar to Tolkien’s), as well as demons, giants, trolls, many races of mens, wizards, goblins and other wonderfull characters and races. After reading all that Tolkien ever wrote, I find that Raymond comes very, very close.
Tolkien wrote with great detail, created languages and history for his races. While not that thorough, Raymond offers incredible story-telling depth. With each novell (or better said, with each cycle of novells) his worlds are offering more, and deeper secrets, that were only hinted in the previous books, are revealed. Something Tolkien never really got to (I wish he could live 5 centuries).

River of Gagajin
You won’t find a better fantasy world today. Of all the books Raymond wrote, I have few favorites. Rage of the Demon King, 3rd part of Serpentwar Saga is my highlight. Featuring almost all of the characters of the previous books, it gives answers to many questions raised in previous ones, good deal of characters that spaned several books dies, and everything falls apart. And rises. Still gives me thrills.

In colaboration with Janny Wurts, he wrote Empire trilogy, a master-piece in story development. Ray’s first trilogy, published in first half of the 80′s deals with Midkemia people being attacked by unknown nation from another planet called Tsuranni. In those books, we only get a glimpse of invader’s strange culture.
In Empire, published in the mid-90′s, we get to see the other side. These books are solely based on Tsuranni and other fantastic races on this world, with astonishing connection points to moments described in the Riftwar saga. Janny’s books are next on my fantasy target list.

I hope I will find time to read The King’s Buccaneer soon, and start digging through The Wars of Light and Shadow…

Multiple, synchronous, onload functions

By On Sat, Sep 20th, 2003 In General With 3 Comments Permanent Link to Multiple, synchronous, onload functionsPermalink

There’s not a single serious web site I did, where I haven’t combined two or more scripts. Calendars, DHTML layers, cookies…they all have one thing in common – they want to grab window.onload for them self.
I usually dealt with that by changing the onload function for last loaded script. This was a pain when for some reason I needed to change the loading order.

When I got tired of it, I wrote a custom script, that’s loaded before all others, and gathers all of them into one piece.

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